1608 in poetry
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Events
- Scottish poet Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study medicine at Padua.
Works
- Clarinda, Discurso en loor de la poesÃa (Discourse in Praise of Poetry), poem by pseudonymous Peruvian female poet published in Spain
- Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigrams[1]
- Samuel Rowlands, Humors Looking Glasse[1]
- Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres (authorship is claimed by Tofte in The Blazon of Jealousie (1615) although Gervase Markham's name is on the title page)[1]
Births
- June â Sir Richard Fanshawe (died 1666), English diplomat, translator, and poet
- December 8 â Vendela Skytte (died 1629), Swedish poet and lady of letters
- December 9 â John Milton (died 1674), English poet and writer
- December 20 (bapt.) â Sir Aston Cokayne (died 1684), English poet and playwright[1]
- Also:
- Menahem Lonzano (born unknown), Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer and poet
- Vaman Pandit (died 1695), Marathi scholar and poet of India
- Samarth Ramdas (died 1681), Marathi saint and religious poet
- Tukaram (died 1650), Sant (Saint) and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement
- Chen Zilong (died 1647), Chinese poet of the Tang School[2]
Deaths
- February 16 â Nicolas Rapin (born 1535), French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
- February 26 â Sir Thomas Craig (born c. 1538), Scottish jurist and poet
- April 19 â Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (born 1536), English statesman and poet
- July 26 â Pablo de Céspedes (born 1538), Spanish painter, poet and architect
- September â Mary Shakespeare, née Arden (born c. 1537), mother of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare
- October 26 â Philipp Nicolai (born 1556), German poet and composer
- Also:
- George Bannatyne (born 1545), Scottish collector of poems
- Henry Lok (born c. 1553), English[1]
- Nicolas de Montreux (born c 1561), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
- Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (born 1536), French
- Andrzej Zbylitowski (born 1565), Polish